Real Estate Investing Articles
I write about how to achieve financial freedom through real estate investing. The central question I explore through my work is: “How can I help busy professionals use real estate to become financially independent and live life on their terms?”
In other words, I want to find ideas, strategies and tactics and explain them in a way that makes them easy to understand and execute. My writing focuses on topics like mindset shifts for real estate investors, how to build and scale your real estate portfolio, strategies to create retirement income through real estate, financial planning using real estate as the principal asset, investing tactics and how to leave a lasting legacy while achieving financial freedom.
Most of all, I write about how to put these ideas into a comprehensive plan of action that takes you from where you are to where you want to be.
The fascinating paradox with long-term real estate investors
There is this fascinating paradox I encounter regularly in our real estate practice. The overwhelming majority of real estate investors I have the privilege to help, fall on the conservative end of the investing spectrum. They are driven by unbiased logic, need empirical evidence and have a long term focus. If you haven’t left this site yet after reading an article or two, you can probably relate. But with all
Should you sell your investment property? A comprehensive guide
If you are a real estate investor that purchased well-located investment properties between 2008 and 2012, you are faced with somewhat of a dilemma. On one hand, you have watched the value of your property rise significantly in recent years on top of any built-in equity you may have secured at the time of purchase. Not to mention that in this market properties sell in a heartbeat for full asking
Regret > Loss
The current strategy most Americans use to save and invest for retirement is fundamentally flawed. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of any strategy in an empirical way let’s look at the final results. Then let’s compare them to the results you employed the strategy to achieve. We will go through that very process using two well known and often quoted studies. First, a 2007 study performed by the Employee
Why did oil prices drop in 2014
Last year, on the morning of June 12, the market price for a barrel of West Texas Intermediate Crude Oil was $107.12. When the ball dropped to announce the arrival of 2015, the price of oil did a spot-on impression and dropped 51% (to $53.45). As I write this article, the price sits even lower at $44.80. As you read through those numbers, you are probably asking yourself two critical
How to avoid “getting married” to a rate of return and a pyramid scheme story
The year was 1997 and the country was on the brink of civil war. Just under two years prior, several “investment” firms had appeared offering a very enticing opportunity: Invest a sum of money and in 90 days receive three times the amount. People could smell that something wasn’t right but they felt drawn to the easy profit nevertheless. So they started investing small amounts: $100 at first that became
The curious case of the Houston real estate bubble – An empirical analysis
The Houston real estate market has been on fire over the past 18 months. Since the start Q2 of 2013, we have experienced double digit increases in sales as well as rising prices and rents fueled by low inventories and high demand. The gallop has felt incessant. Just when you might expect that the market will take a breather for seasonal reasons or otherwise, it keeps sprinting forward. So, in
Observations on income taxes on your free and clear investment portfolio
Many of the articles I have written on InvestingArchitect.com have originated from discussions with investors like you. A few months back, Robert – a regular reader and “subscriber” to our Blueprint strategy – made the following observation. One thing I have noticed though is that the income taxes I am paying keep increasing as the properties are paid off. Typically when you have a leveraged property the cash flow is
How to increase velocity of money to turbocharge your investment returns
Fact: Every investor I’ve had the privilege to help has worked extremely hard to earn and save the capital required to make long term real estate investments. So it’s no wonder that as an investor you want to put in practice strategies that maximize your return on that capital. But I have a slightly different take on this matter. Because I’ve seen first hand how hard many of you work to create